valignment seems to be broken

Gavin,

Let me take a look at this issue. I will get back with you.

It turns out that valignment is currently only supported on the textfield tag. I have updated the documentation. However, you can still accomplish this task by wrapping your text tags in panels to achieve the same effect:

<wire> 



<main> 


  <panel name="one" ypos="100" align="center" width="600" height="150" bordercolor="ffffff" borderwidth="3" leftpad="8">


    <text name="text1" align="center" valign="top" width="600" height="fit" alignment="left" color="#ffffff" font="georgia" size="20" text="This has alignment=left, valignment=top" /> 


  </panel>


  <panel name="two" bottomof="one" align="center" width="600" height="150" bordercolor="ffffff" borderwidth="3">


    <text name="text1" align="center" valign="center" width="600" height="fit" alignment="center" color="#ffffff" font="georgia" size="20" text="This has alignment=center, valignment=center" /> 


  </panel>


  <panel name="three" bottomof="two" align="center" width="600" height="150" bordercolor="ffffff" borderwidth="3" rightpad="8">


    <text name="text1" align="center" valign="bottom" width="600" height="fit" alignment="right" color="#ffffff" font="georgia" size="20" text="This has alignment=right, valignment=bottom" /> 


  </panel>


</main> 



</wire> 

This is not a solution for this case:

If we replace a text object's text on the fly the height is not recalculated when the 'fit' attribute is used. This means that text objects that have dynamic text must have a fixed height, which in turn means that you can only ever have the text vertically centered.

In this new scenario you presented, you may try to use a create tag for your three panels. This will ensure that they are dynamically generated based on a class or series of classes you are defining.

Wow that's an awful lot of work to go to just to vertically align text in a fixed sized box...

I am sorry I wasn't very clear in my last comment.

We are aware of an issue with text tags that do not allow then to wrap text. Because of this issue fit height functions a bit different when you replace the text value using an assign or similar action. We have an active ticket logged for the matter and hope to resolve it soon.

I was offering the create option as a possible workaround in the meantime.

Perhaps 'valignment' support could be added to the text object soon. It would complement the 'alignment' attribute and make vertical positioning of text simpler.

I absolutely agree. A ticket has been created for this as well.

I am having this issue also. Makes it difficult to bring in tweets and format for readability.

Michael,

Thanks for the comment. I will check with the features team and see where this ticket is.